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I was watching the tail end of Chris Wallace’s interview of new EPA director Scott Pruitt over the weekend, and was disheartened at just how sloppy journalism has become. During the interview Wallace, who was playing his own form of “gotcha” journalism with Pruitt kept referring to “facts” that were meant to prove that the Trump Administration’s 31% cut in EPA funding would be bad for the environment. These so-called facts recently have been debunked, but we know that, as the late American writer and satirist Mark Twain once said, “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”